David Hodgson
| David Hodgson | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | David James Hodgson | |
| birthday | November 1, 1960 | |
| place of birth | Gateshead , England | |
| size | 175 cm | |
| position | striker | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1978-1982 | Middlesbrough FC | 125 (16) |
| 1982-1984 | Liverpool FC | 28 ( 4) |
| 1984-1986 | Sunderland AFC | 40 ( 5) |
| 1986-1987 | Norwich City | 6 ( 1) |
| 1987 | → Middlesbrough FC (loan) | 2 ( 0) |
| 1987-1988 | Deportivo Xerez | 14 ( 0) |
| 1988-1989 | Sheffield Wednesday | 11 ( 1) |
| 1989-1990 | Mazda Motors | |
| 1990-1992 | FC Metz | 0 ( 0) |
| 1992 | Swansea City | 3 ( 0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1980-1982 | England U-21 | 7 ( 3) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1995 | Darlington FC | |
| 1996-2000 | Darlington FC | |
| 2003-2006 | Darlington FC | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
David James Hodgson (born November 1, 1960 in Gateshead ) is a retired English football player and coach . As a fast striker and winger , he won the English championship with Liverpool FC in 1983 , but was unable to celebrate any further sporting successes after his departure a year later. He later switched to coaching and was employed three times at Darlington FC .
Athletic career
Player career
David Hodgson's professional career began in his northeastern home at Middlesbrough FC . There the young striker and winger came to his first appearances in the top English league in the 1978/79 season . After 19 league games, the breakthrough followed in the following year , when Hodgson played 40 of a total of 42 league games, scoring seven goals and helping the club to jump into the top half of the table. Hodgson was regarded as one of the greatest talents in English football and in September 1980 he completed his first international match for the English U-21 team . In the team of Dave Sexton he played a total of seven international matches and with his two appearances against Germany in September and October 1982 (3: 1 and 2: 3) he was European champion in this age group . Before the final, he had switched to Liverpool , where he had to accept with "Boro" 1982 shortly before relegation to the second division as bottom of the table .
Although Hodgson was not one of the most dangerous offensive players, he got off to a good start in Liverpool with four goals in the first six competitive games alongside Kenny Dalglish and Ian Rush . On his debut, he had won the first trophy of his professional career with the Charity Shield by substituting for Dalglish after just under 70 minutes . Further titles followed in the spring of 1983 when he won the English championship and the league cup , although after appearing in the semi-finals against Burnley FC (3-0 and 0-1 ), he did not win the final against Manchester United (2-1) once found on the bench.
His great strength was his speed, which enabled him to compensate for certain weaknesses in the technical area at times. When another striker joined Liverpool in the form of Michael Robinson , Hodgson's sporting perspective deteriorated noticeably. Just five league appearances in the 1983/84 season were not enough to officially receive another championship medal. His most important contribution was again to be found in the League Cup, when he made two appearances in the semifinals against FC Walsall (2: 2 and 2: 0) for the finals, but there in both games against FC Everton (0: 0 and 1: 0) was missing. In the European Champions Cup , he sat on the bench in the decisive games, including the final win against AS Roma - thanks to the possibility of being able to nominate more reserve players in European Cup games. Hodgson then asked for a club change and the league rivals AFC Sunderland showed interest. Without further consultation, Hodgson then signed a new contract there. Liverpool manager Joe Fagan had previously tried to get Hodgson to talk and when the latter created a fait accompli, Fagan blamed him for "making the biggest mistake of his life" as he intended to install Hodgson as a permanent fixture in right midfield because he was not satisfied with Sammy Lee's performances .
Back in the north-east of England, Hodgson's career was ambivalent. On the one hand, he reached the final of the League Cup with the "Black Cats" and only just lost it against his later club Norwich City with 0: 1, on the other hand, he was relegated to the second division as the penultimate . After a disappointing 1985/86 season, in which even the fall in the third division could only just be avoided, he moved to Norwich in July 1986, where the "Canaries" had just been promoted to the first division. However, he only played six league games there and only three times he was in the starting line-up. In February 1987 he returned briefly on loan to Middlesbrough, which is now only third-rate, before the Norwich intermezzo ended after just one year.
The next stations were in the season 1987/88 the Spanish second division Deportivo Xerez and the following year the English first division Sheffield Wednesday . The comeback attempt in Sheffield was not crowned with success, apart from a few appearances at the turn of the year 1988/89, and so Hodgson moved to Japan, where he worked for the Mazda Motors works team . Via the detour FC Metz , he ended his active professional career in the third English division in the Welsh Swansea City in 1992 .
Coaching career
Hodgson switched to coaching in the 1990s and after an initial engagement with Jim Platt for Darlington FC, he was the first sole head coach in Darlington from 1996. When in May 1999, George Reynolds, an ambitious and financially strong new chairman came to the club, Hodgson initially benefited from it and under his direction the team reached the play-off final. However, this went against Peterborough United lost and although he initially job security was assured, his second term ended abruptly on August 2, 2000. Together with his assistant Ian Butterworth handed him his resignation and immediately afterwards presented Reynolds with Gary Bennett a Successor.
From November 2001 Hodgson worked as a talent scout for Preston North End and almost two years later he received a new offer from his former club in Darlington. At the end of October 2003, he replaced Mick Tait as head coach , who from then on was responsible for the youth teams. Hodgson stayed in Darlington for three years before being fired in October 2006 in a controversial decision. In addition to the sporting reasons, his negotiations with the AFC Bournemouth and irregularities in relation to payments to player agents were stated. Hodgson later worked as an agent himself, including for Dan Gosling .
Title / Awards
- European Champion Clubs' Cup (1): 1984
- English Championship (1): 1983
- Charity Shield (1): 1982
- U-21 European Championship (1): 1982
Web links
- David Hodgson (coach profile) in the database of soccerbase.com (English)
- Profile at LFCHistory.net
- Statistical data from the Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Database
Individual evidence
- ^ "England - U-21 International Results 1976-1985 - Details" (RSSSF)
- ↑ Rothman's Football Yearbook 1989-90, p. 471; Various online sources often state August 6, 1960 differently.
- ↑ "Flown from the Nest: David Hodgson" (www.ex-canaries.co.uk)
- ^ "Darlington Manager David Hodgson Sacked" (BBC Home)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hodgson, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hodgson, David James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gateshead |